From Fortress to Forum.
This project reinterprets Jerusalem’s National quarter, home to Israel’s main government institutions, as an open, civic landscape rather than a fortified seat of power. Through strategies of openness, integration, and movement, the design introduces housing, public promenades, and democratic meeting spaces into the heart of the governmental complex.
The project challenges the separation between citizen and state, transforming a ceremonial, hierarchical environment into an accessible and participatory public realm.
By connecting Sacher Park and the Rose Garden through a renewed landscape axis, it proposes a physical and symbolic framework for a new democratic urban order, one that belongs to the people.